splay

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Spread or turned out.
2. adj. Clumsy or clumsily formed; awkward.
3. n. Architecture An oblique angle or bevel given to the sides of an opening in a wall so that the opening is wider on one side of the wall than on the other.
4. v. To spread (the limbs, for example) out or apart, especially clumsily.
5. v. To make slanting or sloping; bevel.
6. v. To dislocate (a bone). Used of an animal.
7. v. To be spread out or apart.
8. v. To slant or slope.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To display; unfold; spread out; hence, to cut up; carve: as, to splay a fish.
2. To dislocate, as a horse's shoulder.
3. In architecture, to slope; form with an oblique angle, as the jambs or sides of a window. See the noun.
4. n. Spread; flare.
5. n. In architecture, a sloped surface, or a surface which makes an oblique angle with another, as when the opening through a wall for a door or window widens from the position of the door or window proper toward the face of the wall. A large chamfer is called a splay.
6. n. In fortification, the outward widening of an embrasure from the mouth toward the exterior of the parapet. See embrasure.
7. Spread or spreading out; wide and flat; turned outward; hence, clumsy; awkward. See splay-foot, splay-mouth.
8. Same as spay.
9. In cooperage, to form (a barrel) by drawing it together at the ends.

Wiktionary

1. v. To display; to spread.
2. v. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
3. v. To spay; to castrate.
4. v. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
5. adj. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
6. n. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To display; to spread.
2. v. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
3. v. Obs. or Prov. Eng. To spay; to castrate.
4. v. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
5. adj. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly.
6. adj. (Arch.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. spread open or apart
2. n. an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
3. v. turn outward
4. adj. turned outward in an ungainly manner
5. v. move out of position